When I saw this picture of the National Equality March in Washington today, at first I was moved. But then I saw this raw video and it made me feel proud, but also angry...
Because I simply can't understand why gay Americans are still being forced to fight for their most basic human rights forty years after Stonewall. Still chanting the same slogans in the so-called land of the free, that others shouted out before them. How slow the march of justice is when it comes to gay people. But then this cheered me up. Unlike previous marches promoting gay civil rights, the rally was primarily the undertaking of a new generation of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender advocates who have grown disillusioned with the movement’s established leadership. Because those gay suits in Washington really need a kick in the ass...and so does Obama. The new generation has arrived to take up its place on the front lines of our struggle. It's impatient.
And we are beautiful. There were black LGBT people and Latino LGBT people. Numerous communities of faith with large and vocal groups of marchers. Former and current military service members. Self-proclaimed socialists. A sprinkling of the leather community. A few fabulous drag queens. Young people. Old people. Singles and couples. Countless LGBT parents with babes in arms or young ones in strollers. A major showing of straight allies, young adults and college students. The list could go on. Golly. What an amazing family to belong to eh? And what great straight friends we have. You know if I hadn't turned out this way I think I would have sued my parents.
Of course it's not always great to be gay. Not only are crazy people always trying to put us down...or kill us. Not only are we seemingly condemned to fight FOREVER. Even though we rather just live our lives like everybody else. But today we had a death in the family. He may not have been the greatest singer, and it's definitely not my kind of music. But by coming out publicly Stephen Gately sent out a positive message to gay kids everywhere. In a sane world it would have been nothing. In a world rotten with homophobia it was HUGE. So tonight the gay boys in this house are wearing a gay pride flag on one arm, and a black arm band on the other...
Ever since I began blogging I've racked my brain trying to figure out why the progressive blogosphere and the Blogging Tories seem to exist in two different worlds. Why our sites are so decent and nice, while the Con site seems to be written by a bunch of angry old white guys in their underwear...or WORSE. One hairy hand on their keyboards, the other one on their...um...tree branches. And a few weeks ago I was soooooo excited because I thought I had found the missing link. But it turns out they're not apes after all. Who knew eh? They just don't share our values.
While liberals tend to focus on questions of individual interaction, conservatives are placing greater emphasis on binding together groups with essential institutions.
He found that those on the left feel strongly about the first two (harm/care fairness/reciprocity) while being relatively indifferent toward the latter three. Conservatives however are drawn more to loyalty, authority and purity. Which explains so much about those Cons. Their herd mentality...
Their racism, their Daddy knows best views, their homophobia, why so many are religious fanatics, why they view all "outsiders" as a threat. Once again the Harper government is behaving just as an earlier Canadian government did with Jews anxiously seeking asylum from the Holocaust: slamming the door in their desperate faces.
Scary isn't it? It really makes you wonder what kind of totalitarian society.... LOYALTY... AUTHORITY... PURITY....they might impose on Canadians if they ever got a majority. You know the kind of society the PMO's favourite blogger is hinting at here. Golly. Isn't that useful? Thanks Stephen. Now that we know how they think, and what they are planning, it's going to be so much easier to convince most Canadians that a Con majority would be a living NIGHTMARE. Oh yeah...and one more thing. Since I know it will drive those Con climate change deniers bonkers. And it's Friday night. Don't you LOVE this video?
A Harper majority is a threat to Canada AND the planet ? Hmmm....I think we can work with that one eh? Have a great weekend everyone !
He stabbed the Coalition for Change in the back... and made a deal with the devilwerewolf.
He supported Harper so many times...and took his party so far to the right you couldn't distinguish it from the Conservatives.
Then he took the summer off to do...um...something.
And when he came back he went into the woods to make some boring ads...although this one was pretty exciting eh?
Only to emerge and declare that he didn't like the werewolf anymore, and wanted an IMMEDIATE election.
One he couldn't possibly win...
And here we are now. It's like he went from being the messiah to being the village idiot. Frank Graves, EKOS president And what I want to know now is will he FIRE his idiot advisers? Every last one of them. Will he kiss Jack Layton's ass...on one cheek or BOTH for preventing him from committing political suicide ....and handing Stephen Harper a majority?
And is he now prepared to do to Harper, what Great Ugly Leader did to him? By launching the most vicious attack ads this country has ever seen. Or should I prepare to play this song? For him and for Canada...
Because let's face it we are facing a REAL apocalypse... Can he recover? Maybe. I hope so. But it won't be easy.
Because one more Iggiot mistake and there won't be much left of him.
Two thugs who attacked what they thought were a pair of transvestites picked on the wrong men - when their intended victims turned out to be cage fighters on a night out in fancy dress. Bare-chested Gardener was caught on CCTV confronting one of the men in a pink wig, black skirt and boob tube - then seen swinging a punch, a court heard. But the other cage fighter, wearing a sparkling black dress and matching long wig, sprang to his friend's help, delivering two lightning-quick punches to the two stunned yobs. Golly. And the video is even more shocking enjoyable...
Oh I know I shouldn't celebrate violence eh? But I do love to see bully thugs get OWNED.
*Sigh* I only wish it was a better quality video so I could see the look on their faces.
As I watched Stephen Harper confidently swatting away the opposition's questions today, two things hit me like a two by four in the face. One, Stephen Harper really is behaving like a Liberal...and getting away with it. The problem confounding the Liberals now is a nemesis who defies definition -- a prime minister standing for everything he opposed, yet facing no policy pressure from the right as he lays claim to a great swath of the mushy ideological middle. While voters saw right through Harper's blue sweater vest as basic sheep's clothing disguising a political wolf, the new act has sold well enough to generate a faint Harper-mania.
And two, although he is in majority territory, nobody is demanding to know what he would do if he ever got one. Which is unfortunate, because a Harper majority may be our biggest threat, but that threat is also our most powerful weapon.
Madam Speaker, a long time ago, in fact, as members opposite will know, a great many years ago, when I was a small boy, I read the book Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a story by Robert Louis Stevenson. Members will recall that the point of that story was that by simply drinking a glass of a particular potion, what seemed like a perfectly responsible and reputable person would suddenly become some kind of a monster.
But he didn't take it to its logical extension. For example, how could we ever trust a man like that with something like medicare? When he tried to destroy it for fifteen years. And if he gets a majority, and doesn't have to pretend to be a Liberal, he could strangle it like a chicken. The opposition seems to be stuck in the present and the past, when they should be playing to doubts about Harper's character...or mental stability. And asking what will he do in the FUTURE. When the mask comes off? Which is why I like the simple question in this editorial. Which is the real Stephen Harper?
And of course why I made this video....
Heh heh heh....not just true but PLAUSIBLE. To help remind people that whatever mask he is wearing today Stephen Harper is NOT a nice guy eh? And that a Con majority could be the worst thing that ever happened to Canada. Which is why the opposition should include the word majority in just about every question. Because if you plant enough seeds of doubt in the population, people will start asking themselves can we REALLY trust Stephen Harper? Cheer up brothers and sisters. From every bad thing comes a good one. If we play our cards right. We'll soon have them where we want them...
I don't know why anyone wouldn't want to play this soccer team from Paris. But apparently some Muslim team considered them too gay to play.
"Sorry, but because of the name of your team and in keeping with the principles of the team, which is a team of practising Muslims, we cannot play against you," said the e-mail, according to PFG's co-founder and current president Pascal Brethes.....Our convictions are stronger than a game of football."
Even though the Paris Foot Gay team is made up of all kinds of people... gay and straight. And exists to fight prejudice.
"We (PFG) are first and foremost an association which is against homophobia in football," he said, adding the the club had "heterosexuals, blacks, whites, north Africans, and several different religions."
Christians, Jews and Muslims including the coach.
What a pity eh? It could have been an occasion for friendship or at least some new understanding.
Now it'll probably just add to the tensions between some Muslims communities and those who believe in France's secular tradition. And give more ammunition to the Muslim bashers of this world.
I'll never be one of them of course. But I do love soccer. Mixing politics and sport is bad enough, and mixing sport and religion is even WORSE.So I hope the league stands up to these narrowminded fanatics.
Ever since this shabby cabaret act, I have been disgusted by the number of Canadians...including some progressives... who have gone ga ga over it. Instead of being revolted and outraged over the way this political thug hijacked an artist's gala and turned it into a vulgar campaign event. And by so doing slapped every real and starving artist in the face. Now I'm no artist....as you about to discover. And I realize that the awesome pale has created the ultimate video response. But here is my humble effort...
Ok. So I had a little fun. If you know me you know I can't help myself. I need to keep up my spirits in this dark time. But I'm also deadly serious. If Stephen Harper ever gets a majority he will use it to tear the living heart out of the Canada we love. Don't be fooled. This fanatical ideologue doesn't have a human bone in him. Defeat him, crush his Cons, send him back to Alberta...or piano skool. Before he destroys our country....
I try not to blog too much about the madness called religion, because it bothers me in so many ways. Sometimes it makes me shake my head. They knew he was probably a pervert, and they put him in charge of dealing with the victims? Huh? Sometimes it makes me shake my head ...... and laugh.
During the twenty minute early hours chase - which was described in court as "like something from a Hollywood movie" two police cars crashed and three police left injured. When he eventually stopped he told stunned officers:"You have no idea who I am. You don't know who you are messing with," not before he had tried to drive his car at them. And he's a Master of Ceremonies at the Vatican? What kind of ceremonies does he organize? Then there's the stuff that just makes me angry. Like the religious fanatic who killed five U.N workers today. For the crime of feeding the hungry. And then there's this horrifying story
Shia and Sunni clerics started to preach in their Friday sermons about the evils of homosexuality and “the people of Lot.” Police officers stepped up their harassment of openly gay men. Families and tribes cast out their gay relatives. The bodies of gay men like Mazen and Namir, often mutilated, began turning up on the street. There is no way to verify the number of tortured or harassed, but the best available estimates place that figure in the thousands. Hundreds of men are believed to have been killed. That just makes me wish for a religion-free world. I know there a lot of good religious people. But who will save us from this madness?
Dear Great Leader As you probably know I am not one of your biggest fans. I believe you are the worst Prime Minister in Canadian history. And that your cheap cabaret act last night at the NAC Gala, not only demeaned the office of Prime Minister, but also insulted every starving artist in this country by suggesting you were one of them. When everyone knows you HATE them. And that whatever ridiculous nonsense your legion of media sycophants may spout.
Nothing can change the fact that by forcing yourself on the Gala....or excuse me.... having your wife force you on the event. The whole thing began to take shape a month ago when Mrs. Harper approached Jayne Watson – chief executive officer of the National Arts Centre Foundation, which hosted Saturday's gala to benefit youth in performing arts – about putting the Prime Minister on stage. “She said, ‘What would you think if I asked my husband to perform at the gala?' I said, ‘That would be fantastic and unexpected! Of course,' “ Ms. Watson said. Even though she's the honorary chair... and what's poor Ms Watson to say? "Oh God no, what a hideous and horrifying idea...the artists would never forgive us?" You not only demeaned the event by turning it into a vulgar campaign stop, you revealed the depth of your hypocrisy, your complete contempt for the arts, and of course that you'll do ANYTHING to try to fool idiot Canadians into giving you a majority. So you can screw this country like a donkey. Pardon the expression eh? BTW did you ask those rich people at the Gala to applaud...or just rattle their pearls ? On the other hand, although we obviously have our differences, I do try to keep my criticisms of you within the realm of what your good buddy Tom "Strangelove " Flanagan calls the truthful.... or the merely plausible. And unlike you I am man enough to admit it when I make a mistake. So you know when I said in my post last night that this was the worst Beatles cover EVAH ?
Well I want to apologize. Because I was WRONG. After consulting with an international panel of experts, and doing extensive research. And after finally convincing my dog that those horrible sounds you made were NOT Sally the golden retriever next door calling out to him.
Down boy !!!! Down !!!! I have concluded that you don't even deserve that lowly award. You must share it with this guy...
That is if you haven't got a majority by then, and shocked your idiot groupies by turning the National Arts Centre into a beer garden. Here's hoping you never do. Here's wishing you the worst campaign EVAH. Your Disloyal Servant. Simon
Oh.My.God. Imagine going out for a fancy shmancy evening at the National Arts Centre, expecting to see some high-class acts. And without warning have your eyes, your ears ...your very soul....assaulted by this cheap cabaret act.
Golly. I don't know about you. But I'd want my money back. Because that has to be the worst cover of a Beatles song EVAH. So bad it hurt my ears, and made my dog howl with excitement...no doubt believing it was the bitch next door calling him to come and play. Woof. Woof.
And can you believe the hypocrisy? Singing a song promoting DRUGS!!!! Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends Mm, gonna try with a little help from my friends
Just as he's planning to jail millions of young Canadians for smoking marijuana. And can you believe him singing croaking away at the Gala...pretending to be an ordinary guy. After trashing it last year: "I think when ordinary working people come home, turn on the TV and see … a bunch of people … at a rich gala, all subsidized by taxpayers, claiming their subsidies aren't high enough when they know those subsidies have actually gone up, I'm not sure that's something that resonates with ordinary people..."
And not even letting his poor wife escort John Baird to the ball. Even though she was the honorary chair. Lordy. I still can't believe someone could be so cruel. That Johnzilla story is sadder than Cinderella.The Phantom of the Opera was scary eh? But this one's a MANIAC!!!! Who'll do ANYTHING for a majority. Oh well... a few thoughts come to mind as the full horror of this cheap cabaret act sinks in. An election can't be far off. I wish Ringo hadn't changed the lyrics: Starr insisted on changing the first line which originally was "What would you do if I sang out of tune? Would you stand up and throw tomatoes at me?" He changed the lyric so that fans would not throw tomatoes at him should he perform it live.
And who the fuck gave Great Crooner Croaker Leader the idea that he could sing that song?
When it's not a even a Con song and that ridiculous nerd should stick to Perry Como.
Because that song belongs to US !!! Especially when Joe sings it...
Now THAT is how it's done.
You know ...after listening to that song...it strikes me that with a little help from our friends...and a little unity on the progressive side. We could send those crass Cons back to Alberta. Build a kinder,gentler,better country. And then get REALLY high...
